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What is an adequate standard of living during retirement?
Binswanger, Johannes; Schunk, Daniel - 2009
Many economists and policy-makers argue that households do not save enough to maintain an adequate standard of living during retirement. However, there is no consensus on the answer to the underlying question about what this standard should be, despite the fact that it is crucial for the design...
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Does retirement education teach people to save pension distributions?
Muller, Leslie A. - In: Social security bulletin 64 (2001) 4, pp. 48-65
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Effective retirement savings programs : design features and financial education
Olsen, Anya; Whitman, Kevin - In: Social security bulletin 67 (2007) 3, pp. 53-72
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Assessing the performance of life-cycle portfolio allocation strategies for retirement saving : a simulation study
Bridges, Benjamin; Gesumaria, Robert; Leonesio, Michael V. - In: Social security bulletin 70 (2010) 1, pp. 23-43
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Lifetime earnings, social security benefits, and the adequacy of retirement wealth accumulation
Engen, Eric M.; Gale, William G.; Uccello, Cori E. - In: Social security bulletin 66 (2005) 1, pp. 38-57
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Population, pensions, and endogenous economic growth
Heer, Burkhard (contributor); Irmen, Andreas (contributor) - 2008
We study the effect of a declining labor force on the incentives to engage in labor-saving technical change and ask how this effect is influenced by institutional characteristics of the pension scheme. When labor is scarcer it becomes more expensive and innovation investments that increase labor...
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Testing for convergence in stock markets : a non-linear factor approach
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Erdogan, Burcu; Kuzin, Vladimir - 2009
This paper applies the Phillips and Sul (2007) method to test for convergence in stock returns to an extensive dataset including monthly stock price indices for five EU countries (Germany, France, the Netherlands, Ireland and the UK) as well as the US over the period 1973-2008. We carry out the...
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The commitment value of prefunded pensions
Garon, Jean-Denis - 2015
This paper studies how prefunding public pensions can improve policy outcomes when short-sighted governments cannot … commit. We focus on sustainable plans, where optimal nonlinear pensions are not reneged on by sequential governments …. Prefunding pensions is a commitment mechanism. It implies lower contributions than does the second best policy, which reduces …
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Domestic abuse : instrumental violence and economics incentives
Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut - 2011
A large fraction of domestically abused women report that their partners interfere with their participation in education and employment. As of yet, mainstream economics has not dealt in any systematic way with this phenomenon and its implications for welfare policy. This paper puts forward a...
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Holes in the dike : the global savings glut, US house prices and the long shadow of banking deregulation
Hoffmann, Mathias; Stewen, Iryna - 2015
We explore empirically how capital inflows into the US and financial deregulation within the United States interacted in driving the run-up (and subsequent decline) in US housing prices over the period 1990-2012. To obtain an ex ante measure of financial liberalization, we focus on the history...
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